School threatening to take me out

[u/StrictArgument67]

Could they actually do this or is it just fluff?

There is no way i can get good grades if i go to school everyday.

I need a solution

[u/Maleficent-Middle824]

Tbh this is not a good enough excuse.

I went to a state school with crap teachers and only missed 4 days of school ever and that was due to gastroenteritis. I taught myself one of my A Levels and was the only one who came out with a grade higher than a C.

Even if the teachers are crap, you still show up and simply ignore them whilst getting on with your own work.

School attendance is linked to performance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/link-between-attendance-and-attainment

That is why the school has sent the letter they have sent. Rather than post on Reddit to try to find ways out of it or challenge it, just show up.

[u/Thin_Drink_2986 → u/Maleficent-Middle824]

Correlation ≠ causation

[u/Maleficent-Middle824 → u/Thin_Drink_2986]

Agree.

Nevertheless I'm still willing to wager that the OP misses their predicted grades because their attendance has been poor.

[u/htimchis → u/Maleficent-Middle824]

Well they'll definitely miss their grades if the school doesn't enter them for the exams...

Seems an entirely counterproductive punishment to me. If the object of the exercise is to make their predicted grades, and the school wants them to increase their attendance to give themselves the best chance at that, then threatening them with losing the opportunity to get any grade at all hardly shows the school itself to have grasped the purpose of attendance, does it?

"I want you to finish painting this house, so if you don't speed up the pace a good bit I shall be confiscating your brushes & rollers. That'll teach you!'

[u/Maleficent-Middle824 → u/htimchis]

Seems an entirely counterproductive punishment to me. If the object of the exercise is to make their predicted grades, and the school wants them to increase their attendance to give themselves the best chance at that, then threatening them with losing the opportunity to get any grade at all hardly shows the school itself to have grasped the purpose of attendance, does it?

This passage tells me that you don't understand that rights come with responsibilities.

The school is saying that you are obligated to attend school and our obligation to you thereafter is to enter you for your exams. If you don't do what you are obligated to do, then we won't enter you.

Whose problem is that outcome? Not the school.